Positive masculinity.

We keep hearing about "toxic masculinity" without any explanation of what it means to be positively masculine.

Okay, it's not that hard.

The guy who tried to shoot up the Greenwood Park Mall is toxically masculine. He saw something that he thought was vulnerable, and attacked it with all the weaponry that he could get his hands on.

He was a person capable of violence who lacked control.

Eli Dicken, the guy who killed the shooter, while shielding other people from harm is positively masculine.

He has the capability of being violent. But, he has conscious restraint over that ability. He only used that capability when he needed to in order to safeguard the lives of others.